Hardware : A1222 Plus

Since A-Cube stop producing the Sam motherboards and the high price points of the X1000 & X5000 there were calls for a low-cost entry to the AmigaONE market. In 2015 A-eon announced the A1222, designed to be a low-cost system based on the P1022 1.2Ghz CPU in a Mini ITX design. Development of the board began in late 2015 however due to the CPU design not featuring FPU instruction set AmigaOS4.1 would require an FPU emulator baked into the OS for it to run on the system. This is believed to have really slowed developments of the system, as well Hyperion again being in involved in a legal battle with Cloanto over AmigaOS rights, after they started developing AmigaOS3.1 updates, hasn't helped.

However, in late 2017, a video by Hyperion showed the first boot of AmigaOS4.1 on the A1222, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSvxQIfq2w 6 months later in 2018, Beta testing boards were shipped out to test and it was hoped that towards the end of 2018 the A1222 would get released.

However key driver development was slow and it is believed that Hyperion got into financial difficulty in funding development of OS4, development went to a crawl pace. As a result a key component of AmigaOS, ExecSG changed ownership over to Trevor personally (CEO of A-Eon). This move and a new ExecSG dev team being set up it is hoped to speed up development of AmigaOS4.1 for A1222.

December 31, 2019 it was announced that pre-order would finally be taken for the system, a special triple AAA pack was put together which featured the new Enhancer Software V2.0 from A-EON Technology, "Amiga.org" mouse & mouse mat, "Personal Paint" for AmigaOS PPC and AmigaOS 68k, "ImageFX" for AmigaOS 3.x, A specially commissioned "AmigaSYS 35th Anniversary Edition", Digital copy of the "Viva Amiga Extended Remix" film as soon as it is released, a Special "AAA display box" and pre-order special price of the A1222 for £349, this triple AAA pack was limited to 100 units, which all sold within a few days. People who got this pack will be offered the A1222 first.

Due to Covid-19 virus impact on china and the rest of the world, the system launch was delayed.

At Amiwest 2020 it was revealed a new prototype board, version 1.3 would be required to update obsolete components that were part of the original design. ACube (Sam / AmigaOne 500 developers) would help with the production of this new board. One good side effect of the delay allowed the AHI audio drivers to be completed and UBoot has been updated that makes the system boot quicker. ExecSG has also had a number of bug fixes, improvements and finally the groundwork for multi-core support has begun.

June 6 2021 on Trevors Blog, he shared a new ACube produced A1222 motherboard picture.